10/3/13

Spinespur: Kickstarter Project

Heroic scale, Survival Horror Miniatures game where Fear, brutality and dead bodies are the key to winning.

Comfy Chair Games have re-launched the wonderful Survival Horror game "Spinespur" and are looking for backers to help the development of the new release figures and first expansion rules (for street gangs).

Spinespur is a 32mmskirmish level miniatures game where players will use
between 6 and 10 models per side in a standard size game. Most every
model has multiple wounds, so the one shot/one kill method of play is
rarely a factor in games of Spinespur.

When a model dies in
Spinespur, their bodies and weapons don't magically disappear. A dead
body is marked with a corpse marker, and other models can move up to the
corpse and loot weapons to add to your arsenal. This means you do not
have to enter the battlefield with the best weapons, you just have to
kill your opponents models and loot their weapons.

As
mentioned above, when a model dies their dead body is marked with a
corpse marker. Some models in Spinespur have the ability to use the
corpse markers as resources. Some models are able to raise the dead from
a corpse marker, and have the new undead model fight for them. Other
models consume the corpse marker in order to heal themselves or
sometimes cast magic spells. We don't leave anything to waste in
Spinespur.

Another game mechanic that has been rethought in
Spinespur, is fear. Many games approach fear by having a player roll
some dice, and if they don't roll over a certain number their models run
off the board. What a cheap way to lose hardened warrior models in a
game. In Spinespur, we made fear something that the psychopathic
denizens of Spinespur can use as a weapon, not unlike what you would see
in a horror movie. In Spinespur, fear is represented by fear tokens. As
models do things to horrify or terrify opposing models, they gain fear
tokens. Fear tokens can be used to reroll dice or even just tip the dice
over one side. This makes fear a commodity in Spinespur. Besides, what
is survival horror without fear?